Milepost on A4155
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18th or 19th Century milepost on A4155 at Medmenham
Problable eighteenth to nineteenth century 6 iinches thick cast iron milepost.Triangular 39 inches high 13 inches deep in brush on A4155 just east of Medmenham.' Gout route post'. Inscription raised and painted. Top: HATFIELD 39 Wilder and Sons Reading (painted over). West: MARLOW 3. South: READING 12 HENLEY 4. [ Drawings, location and photographs available ] (B1).
Present in 2002 on Milestones Society web site on Reading to Marlow route National ID number BU_RGHT12. On north side of A4155 opposite Medmenham Mill.43cm wide 28cm deep 104cm high. Inscription: left: MARLOW 3: right: READING 12 HENLEY 4: top: HATFIELD 39.' On wooded bank '. [ Detailed description, location and photograph available ] (B2).
Confirmed by handwritten notes on 1" OS map (1835) was in Bucks County Museum now in Centre for Bucks Studies museum number not clear ? 18 sheet LI page 7 of notes. Inscription : Marlow 3 Henley 4. On Henley on Thames to Marlow (F5) route. Also recorded on page F of these notes title "Gout Track" (ctd.). Number 3 on 1" OS (MP on 1"OS) recorded as not found in 1987 but present in 1992. Inscription: Hat 39 Marlow 3 Reading 12 Henley 4. In same notes under " Gout Track Road F. Check any milestones on road from Marlow, Bisham, to A4 Knowle Hill,with Hatfied-Reading on them".Medmenham (A4155 ) Milepost as in Sketch 1 NGR 807 844 (northside road). Hatfield 39 (top) Marlow 3 (left) Reading 12 (right) Henley 4 (right) In same notes under F in red box Milestones. 1825 Bryant - from High Wycombe to Marlow only. 1820 Milestones replaced by mileposts. 1990 2 milestone now gate posts at Flackmore Heath. See also underlined in red J.R. + K.E. field visit on separate sheet. R.I.E. Haynes - Buckinghamshire Milestones. Kenneth Hunter - " Lord Salisbury's Gout Track " Ref. underlined in red " Hertfordshire Countryside" Vol 16. No 63. Winter 1961. [ Handwritten notes consulted ] (B3).
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Asset type
18th or 19th Century milepost on A4155 at Medmenham
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